Thorn Township (part 3 of 11)

Crark, P. F., Shawnee, Ohio, was born September 29, 1837, in county of Durham, England; son of Francis and Catharine (McKinnach) Clark. His parents were born in county of Tyrone, Ireland. Mr. Clark's grandmother, Donahbew, lived to be one hundred and sixteen years old, and died only about six years ago. His progenitors were wealthy, and he is the first of several generations who labored for a livelihood, the cause being that of his mother's disinheritance upon the occasion of her marriage against her father's wishes. At the age of seven years he went into the mines to labor, and was thereby deprived of an education. He remained in mines until he was nineteen years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, from where he went to Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, and remained about two years engaged in mining, and has been engaged as follows: Baton Rogue, La., as mine boss, three years ; Hadenville, three years ; Kanawha county, Va., eleven months, opening coal mine; Reeves Station, St. Clair county, Ills., about nine months, sinking shaft; at Carbondale, working iron coal-digger at $125.00 per month for about two years ; when he came to Shawnee, where he has made his home to this time. Since coming here he has visited Wyoming, Dakota, New Mexico, California, and Washington, Territory. Mr. Clark was married October 1, 1854, to Margaret, daughter of James and Mary Daily, of county of Durham, England. They became the parents of four children, viz.: Mary, Frank, James and Catharine. Mrs. Clark died February 2d, 1862. After her death Mr. Clark lived a widower seven years, when he was married to Anna, daughter of Jabez and Hannah (Scragg) Foster. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Patrick Henry, Ella, Michael, Charles, Thomas, andJobn. Mr. Clark's grandfather was in the British army, and was the highest noncommissioned oflicer of his regiment, and was engaged in the battle of Waterloo. Since Mr. Clark's marriage he obtained the education he has from his little daughter after she started to school and learned her letters.

Crank, W. D., farmer and coal operator, Pike township, Maholm post office, Ohio; was born February 21, 1845, in Monday Creek township, this county; son of John and Eleanor (Robinson) Clark. Was raised a farmer, and has given his attention to agriculture principally during his life. Mr. Clark's parents were born and raised in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in November, 1829, settling in Reading township, this county, where they rented land for two years, when his father bought eighty acres of land in Monday Creek township, where lie lived twenty-one years. He then bought the farm where William D. now lives. While in Monday Creek township, he bought and owned four hundred acres of land, which he sold, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres, as above stated, and also one hundred and sixty acres one mile north of this place, which he owned at the time of his death. His son, and the subject of this sketch, now owns two hundred and eighty acres of land where he now lives. In August of 1880 he entered into the coal business, which he continues to this time, shipping nearly all the coal the mines. Principally all of his land has some three different coal veins, and also Black Band iron ore, which has been worked toa small extent. Mr. Clark was married November 14, 1871, to Maggie, daughter of Peter and Ann (Walpool) Carroll, of Morgan county, Ohio. They are the parents of the following children: Nellie, Annie, Laura, John, James, Peter J., and Lydia.

Criark, DanteL, Infirmary Superintendent, Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio, was born May 16, 1836, in this township, and son of James and Mary (Gordon) Clark ; was raised a farmer, and has made that his business up to the present time. Ife was married January 15th, 1861, to Rose, daughter of Thomas and Celia (Kelton) McBennett, of his native township. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Elizabeth, Celia, Mary E., Amanda, James, Rosellia, Thomas, and William Francis, living, and one deceased, viz.: John. Mr. Clark was employed by the est Bi directors of Perry county, Ohio, and took charge of the infirmary March 26th, 1878, where he has remained up to the present time, and has been again employed by them for the ensuing year. He has, at the instance of the directors, been buying ready baked bread during the last year, and finds it to be a saving of fifty-four dollars per quarter, or three months, without considering any labor, which would make a still greater difference. There are now about ninety inmates, and the last year's average has been the least since Mr. Clark took charge of the place. In previous years the average has been from one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifteen ininmates. The oldest inmate is eighty-nine years of age, and was one of the early settlers of this county, and known as H. H. Chappelear. The product of the farm are as follows: About one thousand five hundred bushels of corn, from three hundred to four hundred bushels of wheat, about twenty-five head of cattle, and a goodly number of hogs, and considerable of a hay crop usually.

Ciark, ALEXANDER, farmer, Jackson township ; post office, Junction city ; born January 29, 1822, in Jackson township ; son of Alexander and Mary (McElvoy) Clark, who came to this country from Ireland, and settled in Kentucky ; stayed there a short time and removed to Jackson township, Perry county, Ohio, where they resided till they died. Mr. Clark still resides where his parents first settled, but does not work much any more, and spends most of his time in reading.

Criark, James B., farmer, Monroe township, ; post office, Corning, Ohio; was born Dec. 30th, 1843, in Pleasant township, Perry county, Ohio; son of James A. and Catharine (Gaver) Clark. Mr. Clark has given his entire attention to agriculture, in which he has been successful. Mr. Clark was married April 3d, 1872, to Miss Mary, daughter of Joseph and Catharine (Smith) Rogers, of Monroe township. They are the parents of one child, Walter Alvie.

Ciemson, GeorceE W., M. D., Glenford, was born in the village of Thornville, and is therefore a native of Perry county. He isthe only surviving son of Joseph Clemson. who was a native of Baltimore, Maryland. Emigrated to Ohio in 1840, aud departed this life in the year 1878 ; twenty-one years after the death of his wife, who was Miss Elizabeth Clem-. ens, daughter of Samuel Clemens of Lima, Michigan, or near there ; where he owned extensive landed estate, and where he died. Both the Clemson and the Clemens families were. of English Presbyterian stock. Dr. George W. Clemson worked his way up from boyhood toa respectable education, taught school, read medicine, and finally graduated in Starling Medical College in 1874, and began practice as the first physician who had ever attempted Glenford as a permanent location, and in the fall of the same year, was united in wedlock to Miss Almeda, daughter of Dr. Allen Whitmore of Thornville, Ohio. For the last eight years, therefore, Dr. Clemson has devoted himself to his profession and his library, until the range of his practice has grown with his growth in years, and until his presence in the midst of his chosen friends, as a physician, is regarded by many of them as indispensable to their welfare. He and his amiable wife belong to the M. E. church, and two sons and one daughter have blessed their married life. They have a beautiful cottage, erected on an eminence overlooking the valley of Jonathan's Creek, and affording a fine view of a delightful landscape. He is Democratic in politics, but liberal and generous in his political opinions.

Ciumps, CARLISLE, post office, Somerset, Ohio; born August 3d, 1829 ; is a son of William Clumb, who came to Perry county in 1828, from Fairfield, where he lived near Foresman's mill property, and from Maryland to Fairfield in 1808. His mother was Nancy, daughter of Adam Binckley. His brothers are Allen, Adam, William, Benjamin and George. His sisters are Matilda, wife of G. W. Swartz; Mary J., wife of George Shrider; Margaret, wife of H. King ; Sarah Elizabeth, wife of James Dupler; Nancy Catharine, wife of Andrew Batson. Carlisle was first married April 22d, 1849, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Isaac Drum. The children by this union were: Nancy J., wife of Lewis

Winegardner, and Isaac, husband of Martha Drum, daughter of Jacob. After five years of bereavement, he married Miss Ellen, daughter of Moses Drum, February toth,1859. The children by this marriage are: Margaret Emily, wife of William Perry ; John Henry, William Allen, Adam, deceased ; Mary Ellen and Preston Carlisle Clumb. Mr. Clumb is an excellent carpenter and farmer, and for some time ran a saw mill. His first Republican vote for President was in 1856, prior to which he voted Democratic. He and his wife are Lutherans. His first annual tax was twenty cents, paid in Fairfield county. His tax now averages about sixty dollars a year on his farm of one hundred and thirteen acres, here, and on western land. His dwelling is a model of convenience, workmanship and comfort wherein the ame of health are admirably recognized. His reading is extensive, comprising political, religious and scientific subjects ; while the training of his children to habits of study and labor, and to practices of morality, is regarded as an imperative duty. His land increases in fertility and his steill as an architect is vindicated in every effort.

CocHran, Henry D., of the firm of Cochran & Retallic, attorneys-at-law, New Lexington, Ohio, was born January 10, 1851, in eee township; son of Ira and Mary (Cohagan) Cochran. Jlenry

.'s grandfather was one of the pioneers of Jackson township. Young Cochran began teaching school when sixteen years of age, and taught eleven terms. Mr. Cochran's preceptors in the law were attorneys Jackson and Ferguson. He was admitted to practice at the bar in August, 1876. In November of the same year, the present firm was formed, and November 2d of same year he was married to Miss Maria, Waughter of William and Elizabeth (Brown) Larimer, They are the parents of two children, viz.: Edmond B. and William W.

Cotporn, Eruraim §., editor; son of John and Elizabeth Colborn ; was born near New Lexington, Ohio, December 7, 1828. Ile attended the village school, summer and winter, for several years, and afterward in the winter months only, working on the farm in summer. At the age of twenty he became a teacher, taught three terms of select school in New Lexington, and three terms of public school-at Selby's schoolhouse, three miles east of New Lexington, reading law at intervals most of the time while teaching. In June, 1851, he left his Jaw books to become editor, business manager, and part owner of the Periy County Democrat, a newspaper published at Somerset. From that time until the 'present, with but Drief intermissions, he has, in some way or other, been connected with the publicatlon of newspapers. He: served as a member of the Board of Education, both at Somerset and New Lexington, aggregating fifteen or sixteen years of such service. Upon the death of William A. Brown, in November, 1873, Mr. Colborn was appointed to succeed him as Superintendent of the New Lexington teen and served until the close of the school year, a period of six months. He was appointed postmaster at New Lexington by the Lincoln Administration, in May, 1861, and served in that oflice until October, 1866, when, being required to indorse the ' my policy" of President Johnson, he asked to be excused, and sent in his resignation, which was accepted, and a successor appointed, of diflerent political opinions. Mr. Colborn was brought up a Democrat, and through the years 1851-'52-'53, voted witn tnat party, but on the oT Sag ie of the Republican party in 1854, identified himself with it, and remained therein until 1872, when he supported Ilorace Greeley for President, and, since that time, has generally voted the Democratic ticket, though not approving all the measures of thd party, either State or National. H1e was admitted to the bar by the District Court, sitting at New Lexington, in September, 1857, but never engaged in the practice of the profession. He was married October 18, 1853. to Miss Martha J. Overmyer, of Somerset, Perry county, Ohio. Jlis wife dying in 1857, he was married May 29, 1860, to Miss Mary A. Humbarger, also of Somerset. There arg two sons, William J. and Otto D., by the first, nd five daughters, Imie L., Tillie A., Mattie G., May KE. and R. Blanche, by the last marriage. The oldest daughter, Imie, died in March, 1876, in the fifteenth year of her age.

Comps, Wit.iAmM H., son of James 'and grandson of John Combs, Who settled in Perry county om the farm how occupied by William I., his mother, who was a Miss Mary Ann Stoker, and his sister, Miss Kate Combs. The family is Baptist in belief, though Mother Combs, now living, is a member of the U. B. Church. She is the mother of Lewis, George, Levi, Rebecca, wife of D. Brown, John, Thomas, of Lamar, Missouri; Ellen, wife of Dr. R. B. Woodward, and William and Miss Kate Combs - all residing in Fairfield and Perry, except Thomas; were all born at the homestead of their great ancestor, John Combs, on the pike, two miles east of Rushville. The family has maintained a name for integrity, and as the descendants of an honorable ancestry, rank among the foremost in all that pertains to honorable conduct and purity of character: All are married except William and Kate.

Conaway, JAmes, born in Virginia in 1818, died July 23, 1881. Mr. Conaway was three times married ; first, in 1835, to Miss Mary Baughman; second, in 1853, to Miss Addaline George; third, to Miss Kate Alexander, who still survives him, and lives on the homestead with her two children, Josephine and Ollie.

Conaway, R. H., post office McLuney, farmer and stock raiser; a native of Perry county, Ohio; born in 1846, son of James and Mary (Baughman) Conaway ; married in 1872 to Miss Mary S. Watt, daughter of Israel and Rebecca Watt. They are the parents of four children, viz.: T. I., Mary R., James L., and William E. .

'Conty, Joun J., of the firm of Conly & Hull, druggists, New Lexington, Ohio, was born September 4, 1850, in (series township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Hugh and Margaret (Scalley) Conly. Hugh Conly was born in the county Antrim, Tae. and came to America when a youth, and marten ee Pike township, Perry county, Ohio. Margaret Scalley was also born in Ireland, and came to America when a young woman. They are both deceased. The old gentleman died October 10, 1871, and the old lady, July 7, 1876. John J. established his present business in July, 1876; the present firm was furmed in the spring of 1882. Mr. Conly, the.subject of this sketch, was married October 9, 1875,-to Miss Mary L., daughter of James J. and Mary L. (Griffin) Fink. The Finks are of German, and the Griflins of frish ancestry. Mr.and Mrs. Conly are the parents of two children, viz. : Arthur James and Hugh Cuthbert.

Conty, JAmeEs F., Prosecuting Attorney of Perry county, Ohio, and of the firm of Jackson & Conly, attorneys-at-law, New Lexington, Ohio, was born September 15, 1852, in Jackson township, Perry county, Ohio, son of Hugh and Margaret (Scalley) Conly. James F., in 1874, entered the office of Butler & Huffman, as a law student, and was admitted to practice in April, 1878. Immediately thereafter the present firm was formed. Attorney Conly was elected to his present office in 1879, and re-elected in 1881.

Cook, Rapnagv E., carman, New Strai{sville, was born June 7, 1832, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio; son of Elias and Almira (Brookins) Cook ; was raised on the water, and was employed at boating from Nelsonville, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, Circleville, Ohio, and Chillicothe, Ohio, until 1859; from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Waverly and Cleveland for about two years for Emmet & Davis; excepting four years, during which time he was employed with P. Hagans, he was boating for himself up to 1859. In 1861 he enlisted in the service of his country in Company E, Eighteenth Regiment O. V.I. for three years or during the war, and served three years, four months and thirteen days, and was engaged in the following battles: Chickamauga, Stone River, Elk River, Davis' Cross Roads, Bowling Green, LaVergne, Rossville, and Pulaski. At Bowling Green he took sick with lung fever and was in the hospital, at that place, about one month, when he again joined his regiment at Huntsville, Alabama, and remained with it until the time of his discharge at Camp Chase, Ohio, November g, 1864, by reason of expiration of enlistment. After being discharged he returned home and engaged, for a short time, with one Brooks, of Nelsonville, Ohio, trimming coal-cars. Remained in the above place about six years, during the remainder of the time was employed by J.. H. Summers, in hauling coal about three-quarters of a mile ona tram railway. Came to New Straitsville, Ohio, in 1871, and has been employed as follows: Hauling railroad cars for J. D. Clark, about three years; at Plummer Hill two years and six months. and the remainder of time, five years, has been with the Thomas Coal Company. Was married November 19, 1865, to Miss Mary M. Spurrier, born March 7, 1842, in Morgan county, Ohio, daughter of William G. and Eleanor (Shelton) Spurrier. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Silyern Parker, William Lankford, Harley Dallis, Samantha Eleanor, Robert Edward and John Henry.

Coorrr, I. W.,-Bearfield township, Porterville postoflice, farmer, born in Clayton township, March 6, 1839, son of Ruel I]. and Rachel (Burkey) Cooper. His father was a native of this county, and his ancesters came from New Jersey. Mr. I. W. Cooper enlisted October 13, 1861, in the Sixty-second O. V. I., served al] through the war, and was honorably discharged July,1865. Tle received a gun-shot wound in his leg, near Richmond. - Since the close of the war he has lived in this township, and moved on the farm where he now resides in 1869. September 19, 1867, he married Hester A. Holcomb, of this township, and of New rane ancestry. They are the parents of three children : Minnie L., born September 18, 1868, deceased ; Howard B., born October 10, 1870, and Mary E., born May 16, 1881.

Ohio. Was born December 23, 1839, in this township, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Garison) Cotterman. He was raised a farmer, which he has made the business of his life,and moved to the farm of 120 acres, which he owns and lives upon, in 1869. It has the best limestone to be found in the township, of which he opened a quarry at the time Baird's furnace first went into blast, and from it has accumulated a handsome fortune, with the assistance of what farming he has done. He was elected township trustee in 4877 and served several Phaee Mr. Cotterman was married September 8, 1859, to Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram and Nancy (Tucker) Wilson. To them were born six children, viz.: John W., James T., who died at twenty months of age; Nancy, Sarah M., Laurettie and George. Daniel Cotterman, father of Amos, was born in Pennsylvania, and brought to Ohio, when a boy, by his parents, who settled in Reading township in the early part of this century, when this country was all woods. In 1838 he moved to Monday Creek township, where he has since resided, and is now one of the oldest men in the township. Mrs. Cotterman, his wife, was a native of Perry county, Ohio, and died February 28, 1880, and is buried in St. John's cemetery, this township. Unto them were born ten children, viz.: Israel, Rachel, Samuel, Amos, Elizabeth, James W., Margaret J., John H., Mariah E., and Salome C. Daniel is a shoemaker by trade, which he has given his attention. Hiram Wilson, father of Mrs Cotterman, was born in 1808, in Virginia, and came to Ohio a few years after his marriage to Elizabeth Garison, who was born in 1814 in Montomery county, Virginia. To them were born nine children, viz. :

Coy Le, JAMES, mine boss, New Straitsville, Ohio. | Was born Jul 22, 1838, in Bearfield township, this county, son of Neil and Ann (Fealty) Coyle. He was raised a farmer, and followed farming until he was twenty-one years of age. At this time he began mining, which he followed about one year,when he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, O. V. I., August 14. 1862, forthree years, or during the war, and serving out his time he was honorably discharged at Huston, Texas, July 31, 1865. Was engaged in the following battles: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Thompson's Hill, Siege of Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Charge of Fort Blakely, Black River Bridge and Siege of Mobile, Alabama. During the entire time of service he was only off of duty about ten days. After receiving his discharge he returned home and engaged in mining from that time up to the holidays of 1865 and 1866; and was married January g, 1866, to Miss Rebecca Miller, born April 5, 1846, in Noble county, Ohio, daughter of Adam and Sarah (Allbaugh) Miller. They are the parents of six children, viz.: Charlie (deceased), Charles H., George W., Francis M., John (deceased), and James. After his marriage he went to Hocking county, Ohio, where he engaged in mining until 1871, when he came to this place and engaged in mining until 1876, at which time he took charge of the Straitsville Coal and Iron Company's mine, remaining in that position about two years, and in November of 1878, took his present position with the Straitsville Coal Company. He has served as County Commissioner since October of 1876, having been re- elec {cc October, 1879; also, nas served as township trustee three ye of Coal township, and was a member of the school board of this plis's our years, during which time he was treasurer. ~ (oy7g, Parrtck, Shawnee, Ohio. Was born January 28, 1844, in Beartield township, this county, son of Cornelius and Annie (Iealty) Coyle. Mr. Coyle was raised a farmer to the age of sixteen years, when he went to coal mining at Tunnel Hill, this county, where he remained about three or four years, and he Has been engaged at mining in Peipnsylvania six months ; Iowa four or five months ; Missouri, Hocking Valley and Shawnee until 1874. Was marshal in this place three ees when he resigned his position, and drove delivery wagon for amilton's store for about five years, and then went into business for himself. Mr. Coyle was married April 5, 1869, to Mary A., daughter of Charles and Annie (Fealty) Noon. They are the parents of three childreh, viz.: Willie, Albert and Annie.

Crawrorp, WM. Jno., collier, Shawnee, Ohio. Was born August 5, 1855, in Perry county, Ohio, son of Wiiliam and Eliza (Neil) Crawford. Mr. eee was raised a farmer,-and lived on a farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he engaged in business for himself, ana was employed by the Central Coal Mining Company, of New Straitsville, Ohio, for about one year, at which time he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has remained up to this time, and with the e - ception of three years he worked at the furnace, bas been engaged in mining. Was married November 22, 1877, to Mary, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Hazleton) Harbaugh. They are the parents of one child, viz.: Charley. Mr. Crawford's parents were born, raised, and married, in Ireland, but emigrated to America in after years.

Crist', Joun, Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, was born February 2, 1826. His father was Jacob Crist, and his mother's maiden name was Katharine Concle, both natives of Pennsylvania, and came 'o Thorn township as early as 180%. Father Crist died at the age of seventy-three, and mother Crist in her seventy-sixth vear, in Thorn township. The brothers of John Crist were, George (deceased), Daniel and Frederick, (deceased). His sister was Elizabeth, deceased wife of Absalom Winegardner. John Crist was married October 24, 1846, in his twenty-first year, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Miller. They have eight livin and three deceased children. Those living are Katharine, wife of William Poulton ; Leonard, husband of Lucy Spoon; Andrew, husband of a Miss Ortma)y ; Isabel, wife of Frank Diltz ; Jesse husband of a Miss Myers; Alice, wife of W. H.: Shrider ; Miss Ida and John C. Crist, at home. John Crist began life as a renter. He was strong, healthy and industrious, and his success in , farming may be judged by the fact that within a few years after his marriage he sold eight hundred bushels of wheat to one James Culbertson, and his fortitude may Also be judged by the fact that he never got his pay for one bushel of it. and yet rallied like a brave man to new effort, not only as a farmer, but in a few years later as a shipper of stock to foreign markets. Judge, then, of his success by the following facts: He has 155 acres where he lives, 85 acres in another tract, 110 acres in a third farm, 154 acres in a fourtb and 70 acres in a fifth farm. The Crist ancestry were Lutherans in belief, Democrats in politics, but in 1854 they became opposed to the party of this name, and generally act with the patiy opposed to the Democracy. John Crist's taxes have gone as high as $352 ina single year. His care of horses and his goodness of heart may both be judged by the fact that a few years after his marriage, he became the owner of a grey mare, which he kept and used on the farm until she was thirty-six years old, and this is proof of the care he took of his property, and may be a hint to young men who read this, pointing to wealth and success in life. John Crist never abused a horse, and the facts prove that he got more service out of one mare thar many men get out uf two or three. People were never fearful to buy a horse of him because they suspected bad usage, and the consequences of bad usage - disease and debility.

eet Wo. W., railroad engineer, Corning, Ohio, was born July 15, 1847, in Cainan, Connecticut; son of Israel and F lizabeth (Nobles) Crocker. When about fourteen, began work as a machinist. At the age of nineteen took charge of a passenger engine on the P., Ft. W.&C.R.R. He has worked in the railroad shops at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and was foreman of the O. C. mechanical shops at Corning one year. He can build an engine 'from the ground up." Mr. Geecker was married July 16, 1871, to Miss Lydia C., daughter of Samuel and Julia A. (Stuck) Slagle of Crawford county, Ohio. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Grace E., Bertha, Ralph and Arthur John. Mr. Crocker came to Corning in March, 1881, at which place he now resides.

Crook, J. E., station agent on the C. & M. V: road; post office, Crooksville ; born in Muskingum county in 1825 ; came to Perry county in 1868; son of Jacob and Nancy (Bowers) Crook; grandson of Thomas and Anna (Carter) Crook; grandson of Andrew and Mary Bowers. Married in 1846 to Miss Mary A. Palmer, daughter -of John and Mary Palmer; the latter was born in Washington, D.C. They have seven children, viz.: Angaline (deceased), Olivia, Victoria, Anna, Dide, Susanah, Guy U. Mr. Crook served three years as Justice of the Peace of Springfield township, Muskingum county, Ohio. Has been station agent at Crooksville, on the C. & M. V. road, some seven years. He was also engaged in the mercantile business some five years at Crooksville. Mr. Crook was also instrumental in getting the postoffice located at Crooksville. _

Crossit, Micuak_, Sheriff of Perry county, Ohio, was born March 1, 1840, in Jackson township; syn of Gilbert and Anne (Tempany) Crosbie. Sheriff Crosbie was brought up on a farm, and fellowed that occupation until October, 1880, when he was elected to jis present office. He was married May 26, (874, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of David and Margaret (Huston) Bawland, of Jackson township. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Maggie Ellen, Annie Violet and David William.

Crosson, JOHN, farmer ; post office, Somerset ; born in 1815, in Donegal county, Ireland; is asonof dward and Catharine (Cunningham) Crosson. Edward first came to America in 1817, returned to Ireland, sold his possessions there, and set sail for America with hts family, Neil and John, (the latter only three years old), and four sisters, and settled where his son John now resides, in 1820, after spending several years in Baltimore, and first taking counsel from the late Rev. Dominic Young. Here, in Perry, the family was joined by Neil Crosson, an uncle af John, who died in Perry a bachelor. Neil came to Philadelphia in 1800, and after serving faithfully as a day laborer in the employ of Johv Davis, an English contractor, who built the first water works of the ** Quaker City," took Neil with him to Baltimore in the same business. Neil soon made himself so indispensable that his wages were raised tp $1,200 a year; and he helped on the first pike and on the first waterworks ever erected in the United States. John, his nephew, also served as director of the Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad, while Neil, the uncle, helped to build the Zanesville and Maysville turnpike. The name of Crosson is thus honorably connected with the first water works and pike of the East, and the first railroad and pike through the town of Somerset. John's father, after settling his family comfortably, died in 1823, but his mother lived to the great age of eighty-five, dying .near the year 1862. The death of his uncle and his brother, Neil, after that of his father, left John sole manager of the homestead. His maiden sisters are Fanny, Anna and Catharine,.who reside upon a farm of their own; post office, Junction City, Ohio, near where another sister, Peggy, wife of Samuel Crosson, also resides. In 1841, John was matried to Miss Susan Slavin, a daughter of Tully Slavin, and a sister of James and John Slavin, former residents of Perry, and afterward the famous wholesale merchants of this name in Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis and New York, having as many as three wholesule houses at one time. Her surviving children are: Neil, post office, Somerset, and a thriving farmer; James, a commercial traveler, who represents a New York house in Texas, and has also extended his sales far into the Republic of Mexico. There are als@ two daughters, Rosa and Anna, both students at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Somerset, Qhio ; each in turn remaining at home to take charge of their father's household. Mrs. Crosson died in 188c, at the age of fifty-seven. Her husband, John Crosson, though often importuned and amply qualified, was never a candidate for any office. He built a beautiful and elegant brick residence in 1840, enjoys the society of friends and the life of a farmer.

Crossan, Davin, farmer, Madigon township ; post office, Mt. Perry. He was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1824. His parents were Isaac and Elizabeth (Philips) Crossan. He has always been a farmer and stock raise? . and now owns an extensive and excellent farm. He moved to this township May rst, 1849, and has since made it his residence. He was in the one hundred dlays' service as first corporal of Company H, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment. Mr. Crossan was married April 19, 1849, to Elizabeth Weaver, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret Weaver. They are the parents of the following children: William A., Ifanner. Ida (deceased), Rachel A., Laura C., Charles H., Isaac O. and Thomas FE.

Curran, Roserr, Justice of the Peace; son of Michae: and Mary (Robinson) Curran ; was born in W2 shington county, Pennsylvania, in November 6th, 1819. Came to Ohie with his parents in 18 20, and settled at Blotzleysville, Wayne gounty, Ohio; lived there until 1830, when they came to Jackson township, Perry county ; staved till 1842, then went to Hocking county, and worked ina wholesale tobacco store till 1851. Then purchased a farm and followed farming till 1872, and was then elected sheriff, and held the office four years. In the winter of 1876, he established a cigar manufactory, and retail store of the same and tobacco, till 1880; then came to Junction City, arfd was unanimously elected Justice of the Peace in 1881, and still holds the office. Was married in 1851, to Miss Arabella W., daughter of Fli and Elizabeth (Sholts) Barker; are the parents of the following children, viz.: Mollie E., Emma I., Clara, Ella, Eddie, Michael. Mr. Curran's parents were of Irish descent ; his wife's parents were of German descent. Had one brother who served during the late war ; was wounded in both arms at battle of Gettysburg. Mr. C. has been interested, more or less, in public affairs all his life.

Curran, J. C., born 1835, post ofice, Somerset, O., occupation jeweler and watchn'aker. With his ownrude tools, while yet a boy on the farm, he began mending and cleaning watches, and achieving such wonders in the art that in 1863 he began business in Somerset, and since then has not only sustained it against severe and educated competition, until now, when local effort, though often attempted, has entirely withdrawn from the contest. J.C. is a son of Samuel Curran, County Surveyor, Justice of the Peace, and who for more than half a century, beginning in 1818, resided on the same farm, section 10, Clay township. The mother of J. C. was Miss Lucy Cartlich, a sister of the Rev. Abraham Cartlich of Somerset. She is still living at the age of 73, but her husband, after along and honorable life, passed away in 1877, in his seyenty-eighth year. The grandfather of J. C. was Robert Curran, who died on the Curran homestead, in Clayton, a few years after his settlement there in 1818, from Pennsylvania.. He was born in Ireland, was sent by his father with a cargo of goods for sale in America. The ship was seized by pirates, and young Robert found himself at the age of seventeen, though robust and large in size, a pauper in property but a patriot in politics. He joined the army of Washington, and it was his boast through life that he could put his hand on the rump of the General's white horse ut the battle of Princeton, when that officer exclaimed, '*Come on my brave lads, follow me." After the war he married Miss Nancy Chilc¢te, a first cousin of the late venerable Enzer Chilcote, all pious and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While the name of Curran was fighting for independence, J. C.'s great ancestor, a slave baron of Southern Virginia, Major Charles Cartlich, was fighting tor the king. His son Jesse, afterwards Reverend Jesse, and father of Rev. Abraham Cartlich, now of Somerset, refused 'to take charge, or accept ownership in the slaves of the father, which resulted not only in the loss of paternal good will but of patrimony also. He died in the ministry after living to see the triumph of his sentiments against human bondage, and the end of African slavery in his native land. Ilewas educated in Bordeaux, France, well versed in the science of medicine, and preferred his convictions of right to all the wealth he might have enjoyed by disobedience to those convictions. J..C. Curran was married Christmas, 1859, to Miss Margaret Jane, daughter of James Collin, and even dane ath of Thomas Beard, an early settler in Perry, and also ancestor of the ' Billy Beard,'' who was an old time stage contractor. Their children are, James E., William E., and Miss Jesse Aurilla. Mr. Curran may be said to have been successful in business, and his deposits are estimated at $15,000 in the banks of Hocking county, located in sections 30 and 36 of Ward and Falls. The vaults there contain coal fourteen feet thick on one shelf and eight feet on another; clay, white as chalk, fourteen feet thick; thirty-five per cent. of one hundred and eighty acres of timber; limestone in immense thickness, and sandstone in layers fine grit, used for grindstones, good for Window sills and caps. ' These deposits are held under recognized consignments, and far more certain to respond to drafts than ordinary banks of discount. The Baltimore & Ohio extension line runs through, and passes the door of these famous banks, and these princely deposits. Curran, WititAmM, Monroe township, farmer, post office, Corning, O., was born February 22, 1840, in Monroe township, son of Peter and Mary (Townsend) Curran. Peter Curran was a native of Ireland, but settled in Perry county, Ohio, when there were but five or six families within an area of ten miles distance. Mary Townsend was a native of New York State. They raised a fainily of fivesons, of whom William, named above, is the third. He has been quite successful, having given his entire attention to farming. Mr, Curran was married May 6, 1861, to Miss Mary, daughter of Anthony and Annie (Mulrine Kilkenney, of Morgan county, O. Her parents were natives of Ireland. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Geo. T., Annie L., Mary J., and Frances. Dampacu, Puitip JAcos, tinner, Shawnee, Ohio, was born November 28, 1848, in Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, son of Daniel and Catharine (Shoeman) Dambach. Mr. Dambach was raised in lis native town, where he lived until 1867, and where he learned his trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years from March 21, 1864 to March 21, 1867, with John Work & Son, and has since been employed at the following places: Chillicothe, O., Portsmouth, O., Washington C. H., Fayette County, O., stamping tin ware for M. S. Sager, six months ; again in Lancaster, one year; New Lexington, O., Logan, O.; again at home sick for about eight months, and upon his recovery again went to New Lexington, O., with Morehead & Whipps about one year, where he was married in October, 1870, to Catharine Loretta, daughof Michael! ]. and Grace (Kinner) Braddock, of Logan, O. 'They are the parents of five children, viz.: Gracie Catharine, Mary Elizabeth, Osais William, Ellen Gertrude, and Clara Louisa. After his marriage he has been employed at the following places: Lancaster, until the spring of 1871; Bremen, three months; New Lexington, about one year in his own shop; Straitsville, O.; Shawnee, that fal] and moved to Iron Point, and into Shawnee the following fall, soon after which came the great miner's strike and hé moved to Lancaster, staying nine months, and again set up in business in New Lexington, O.. in partnership with his brother-in-law, M. R. Braddock, and in about four months broke up and made tin ware without the assistance of machines and by that obtained a livelihood for the winter that was upon them; again moved to Shawt¥e and since has made this his home. Has paid up all he owed, and now owns a business' house on Main street, and a comfortable dw2lling in this place. DANIEL, GEorGE, born August 5, 1811, in Hopewell township, on the farm of his uncle John Daniel, who died in 1848. George is the only son of J. George Daniel, who came from Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in the same year his son was born. The mother of George Daniel was Saloma Seitz. Two sisters of George, and elder than he, were born in Pennsylvania. "These were Katharine and Saloma. Another sister, younger than George Daniel, was born in Perry county ; her name was Lydia: The father soon moved his family to Somerset and here carried on the carpenter trade, but he must have stayed in Hopewell township until after 1815,for it was while living there that he made the coffin in which the Rev. William Foster was buried in that same year. After a residence in Somerset, up to 1820, four or five years perhaps, father J. George Daniel bought the southeast one-fourth section 22, Thorn, Perry county. Grandfather Daniel died in Pennsylvania, at the advance age Be ren i Es It was this grandfather Daniel that was the brother of grandmother Foster, wife of Rev. William Foster. J. George, who made the coffin for Rev. William, was therefore a full cousin of grandmother Foster, by blood. This makes their children second cousins, and old Uncle Ben. Foster and his brothers and sisters were second cousins to the present George Daniel and his brothers and sisters, and the children of these pre third cousins. In 1820 there were only thirty acres deadened on the farm. It had no buildings. The father of the present George Daniel lived on the farm forty years, and died in 1860. His wife died before that date, and her maiden name being Seitz, may interest others of the same name in Fairfield county and elsewhere. The first marriage of George Daniel was in 1833, 'to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew, and sister of the present venerable George Smith, of Hopewell. By this marriage there were four sons and two daughters; one son died when a child, Jacob becamé the husband of Sophrona Dorris, Thornville post office ; Samuel, the husband of Eliza Chaney, Fredonia post office; Levi, the husband of Martha From, Thornville post office; Mary Elizabeth, became the wife of Samuel Rarick, farmer, Middleport post office, Van Wert county. Ohio, and Miss Leah at home. The second marriage of George Daniel, was to Miss Elizabeth Troup, in 1848, December 12th, a daughter of Adam Troup and a sister of the present Israel 'Troup, of Hopewell. 'The children by this marriage are two sons - Noah,who became the husband of Miss Martha, aaughter of Harrison Lyle, of Thorn. He is a farmer,and his post office is Thornville. The other son, George W., became the husband of Miss Mary K. Lyle, a sister of Martha, the above name. To go back to 1851, or 1852, the present venerable George Daniel, bought the then home farm of his father, who, with his aged wife, retired to a small farm of forty acres, in the same neighborhood. The price agreed was $4,000, one thousand down, five hundred in one year and two hundred dollars a year until paid, and one-third the crop during his father's life time, making about $6,000, as it turned out. The head of Mr. Daniel is twenty-two inches ; height, five feet and seven inches ; weight, one hundred and sixty-five and up to one hundred and eighty-four pounds. He holds the original papers, dated 1805, organizing Zion Church, and from him were obtained many interesting

Danison, Hiram, born 1829, a farmer, Glenford post office, Ohio, is a son of the late venerable James Danison, who came to flopewell township from Maryland in 1812, when his father, Jared Danjson, settled on section fifteen. The sons of this old pioneér were William, Jared, Asa, Elisha and James, the father of Hiram Danison. The daughters were Elizabeth, wife of John Ward, and~a Mrs. Petty.. As late as the year 1830, James, in partnership with two brothers, purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 16, forty of which fell to ages and is the same land on which he afterwards lived and died.

radition,derived from the mother of Hiram, asserts that James worked on the National pike, and thereby earned the money with which to buy and pay for this first forty acres of land, the price of which was then $1.25 per acre, due perhaps to its rocky surface and the date of its pur~ chase, and the fifty cents per day earned by labor. James Danison died in 1864, owning one hundred acres of land, leaving his widow, whose maiden name was Dorcus Wilson,an aunt of Jeremiah Wilson, residing on section 21, Hopewell, with one son, Hiram, and one daughter, Mrs. Harriet Walser, wife of Jefferson Walser, Glenford post office, Ohio. Hiram has added twenty acres to the old homestead, comprising two hundred acres, of which his sister obtained seventy-five acres, leaving him one hundred and twenty-five acres at this time. His first wife, and also the mother of all his children, was Miss Rebecca Wilson, daughter of John Wilson, who died in 1865. ler children are Clararissa, widow of Ezra Plane. (killed by accident); Allie, wife of John Plane,Chalfants post office ; Martha,wife of E. W. Cooperider, Thornville post office ; Jane, wife of John Beard, Mount Perry post office, and Miss Ida. Hiram Danison. married a second wife, Miss Huldah Heck, daughter of Henry Heck, late of Reading township. Mr. Danison has just returned from a visit to Richmond, Virginia, to inspect some of the wonderful bargains in land, and houses advertised in that vicinity of Virginia since the Rebellion. He professes himself well pleased with the prospects for capital invested and says if he moves there he wishes to take as much of old Perry with him as he can.

Danison, JEFFERSON, Monday Creek township, farmer, Maxville, Ohio, was born April 8, 1853, in Monday Creek township, son of Jared and Elizabeth (Ward) Danison. Mr. Danison was raised a farmer, and has made agricultural pursuits the business of his life to this time. Was married October 19, 1876, to Matilda, daughter of Thomas and Sophia (Huston) Kennedy. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Sophia Bell and Elsie M. r. Danison was elected trustee of the township in the spring of 1882.

Darst & Ream, hardware. Began the business in 1879, in the room across the street. They now occufy the old Leavitt building on | the' south side of Main street, west of the square. They deal in hardware, agricultural implements, buggies; lumber, etc. :

DaAuGHERTY, JOHN, Pike township, farmer, Maholm post office, Ohio, was born December 24, 1816, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, son of Constantine and Bridget (Porter) Daugherty. Was raised a farmer, and has made agricultural pursuits the business of his life to the present time. .Mr. Daugherty came to Ohio with his father at the age of seven years, who settled in Jackson township, this county, where he purchased a farm that adjoins the one now owned by John, his son,and subject of this sketch where he lived to the time of his death, which occurredin April of 1860. Mr. Daugherty's parents were born in Ireland, where they were married, and after which they emigrated to America in the year 1811, landing in Baltimore, Maryland, where they lived seven years, and in all, lived twelve years in Maryland. After coming to Ohio his father gave all attention to agricultural pursuits. Mr. Daugherty, the subject of this sketch, lived with his father, taking charge of the home farm until he was thirty-two years of age, when his father gave him eighty acres of land of the home place, where he built a house and where he lived twenty-one years, when he purchased the Mac- Gahan farm, and moved into the house where Janarius A. McGahan, author of ''Campaign on the Oxus," ''The Fall of Kihva"' and '*Under the Northern Lights,"' was born, where he now lives. He owns two hundred and five acres of land in range 15, in section 1g, one hundred and twenty-four and one-half acres, and eighty acres in section 30, Pike township. Mr. Daugherty was township 'clerk in Jackson township five years, and assessor of same township four years, and in 1875 was candidate for County Representative before the Democratic convention. Was married April 26, 1846, to Miss Ann McGreevy, born November 10, 1819, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Carroll) McGreevy. They are the parents of eight children, viz.: James, born April 22, 1847, and married to Catharine Goodwin; Bridget, born July 26, 1848, and married to Henry Robbin ; Elizabeth, born August 5, 1850, and died November 3, 1877 ; Mary, born September 23, 1852, and died May 4, 1876; Sarah A., born December 24, 1854, married to Patrick Hennesy ; Philip, born March 6, 1857, coal operator at Bristol Station, this county; John J., born February 17, 1859, at home, and Constantine T., born December 19, 1861, at home. When Mr. Daugherty first came to this county, it was principally a woodland, and southward there was no dwelling for six miles distant. There was plenty of deer, wolves and turkey, and those were the days of buckskin pantaloons and moccasins.

Davis, G. R., Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio, carpenter,was born January 2, 1821, in Maryland, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Es - secks) Davis. Mr. Davis was raised a farmer, and followed agricultural pursuits for some ten or twelve years after he become ofage. He was married March 24, 1842, to Rebecca, daughter of John and Ann (Guinn) Whips, of Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of eight. children, who are living, viz.: Ann, Jane, John, Letha, Lydia, Susan,. Thomas J., and Sarah Ellen, and four dead, viz.: Martha, Elizabeth, Mary and William. Mr. Davis came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and ten years later to Perry county, of which he has remained a resident up to the present time, at first farming, and afterward running an engine of his own from 1852 to 1856, and afterward one at Sulphur Spring grist mill for three years, from that he took up the carpenter trade, working one year, when he went to Athens, Ohio, where he run an engine until the breaking out of the Rebellion of 1861, at this time enlisting in Company H, Twenty-second Regiment O. V. I., serving three months, when he re-enlisted in Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, O. V. I.. of which Company he was Fourth Sergeant. He re- mained in the service about sixteen months, and was discharged because of disability by heart disease. [le now lives in New Lexington, anu owns, besides the house he lives in, three acres in northwestern part of Real Estate addition. ~

_ Davey, Wiviram, Mayor, Shawnee, Ohio, was born December 2, 1841, in the Parish of St. Neots, Cornwall county, [england ; son of Joseph and Anne (Skewes) Davey. He served about five years in the British Navy. Three years of this service was on the west coast of Africa. When about twenty-three years of age he came to America, and located in Athens county, Ohio, where he made his home until about 1868. He enlisted in 1864 in the 18th O. V.I., and served to the close of the war. He was elected Mayor of Shawnce, Ohio, in April, 1876, and is now serving his third consecutive term. Mayor Davey was elected Justice of the Peace in the fall of 1877, and is now serving his second term. He was married December 25, 1867, to Miss Cecelia, daughter of William E. and Elizabeth Roberts, of Jackson county, Ohio. '

Davis, Davin E., collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born February 10, 1828, in Carmarthenshire, Wales; son of Samuel and Margaret (Oldham) Davis. Mr. Davis was raised in Carmarthenshire, and remained there until he was about fifteen years of age, when he went to Glamorganshire, where he learned the puddler trade, or what in Amrica is called boiler in rolling mill, where he remained about eight years, at which time he was chosen foreman of a rolling mill at Llandaff, remaining three years, and afterward of a rolling mill at Workington for two years, from where he went to Aberdare, rnnning a coal shaft engine for three years. Emigrated to America, and landed in New York, Qctober 6, 1857, going directly to Covington, Kentucky, where he was employed at his trade for a few months, and has been engaged as follows: Minersville, Meigs county, Ohio, mining coal, sixteen years, from which place he came to Shawnee, Ohio, in April of 1875, where he has remained up to this time, and has been engaged as a miner, except two ears he was check-weighman. Mr. Davis was married August, 1850, to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Pugh) Lloyd, of Glamorganshire, Wales. They are the parents of two children, now living, viz.: Samuel E. and John L., and six deceased, viz.: Robert, William, David, Thomas, Mary Jane and Maggie. While living in Meigs county he was school director twelve years, and is at this time township trustee and cemetery trustee of this place.

Davis, Davin, superintendent Ore mines, Shawnee, Ohio, was born in April, 1840, in peB ICY Carmarthenshire, Wales; son of John and Mary (Davis) Davis. as raised in his native shire to the age of twelve years, when he went to the coal regions at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, and was employed as a driver in the mines until 1860. At this time he emigrated to America, leaving Liverpool in February, and landing in New York April 3, 1860. From New York he went direct to Coshocton, Ohio, and engaged as miner, and was mine boss for four years at his uncle James Davis' coal mine. In 1864 he began boating on the Ohio canal, running from Newark, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio, which he continued eight years, and owned the boat called the '* Three Brothers." At the end of this time he came to Shawnee, in August of

1872, where he has been employed as follows: Hauling coal out of Shawnee Valley coal mine, one year; superintendent of drivers for Newark Coal Company, until September, 1876, and at that time he, in partnership with T. J. Davis, of Newark, Ohio, contracted to deliver twenty thousand tons of iron ore from Iron Point to the XX furnace, which contract they completed in eighteen months from the date of commencement. At this time, December of 1873, he was emploved as superintendent of the iron ore mines at Iron Point, by the XX Coal and Iron Ore Company, which position he siill holds. He owns eighty-six acres of land in Trimble township, Athens county, Ohio, with twelve feet vein of coal, and a three feet vein of iron ore, the dwelling in which he lives, and one-half interest in the new Upson Coal Company store building. He has beena member of the school board for the past three years in this place. Mr. Davis was married in December of 1855 to Anna Davis, of Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was married in Aberdare, Wales. They became the parents of the following children, viz. : Benjamin John, James Howard, William, Mary Jane, Sarah Ann, Dora, Belle and 'Thomas (deceased). Mrs. Davis departed this life February 3, 1882, and is buried in Shawnee cemetery.

Davis, J. W., grocer, Shawnee, Ohio; was born December 8, 1851, in Morgan county, Ohio; son of Samuel and Mary (Keever) Davis. Mr. Davis was brought up on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits up to 1874, at which time he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he engaged as a teamster, following tliat occupation for about two years, and then began to dray, and followed that for about five years, when an accident occurred by which he broke his ankle, which so disabled him that he was obliged to abandon that business, and has established himself in a retail family grocery store, where he is in business at this time. Was married April 13, 1869, to Mary J., daughter of James Devit, of Morgan county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Madgie, Charles C., and Bertie Estella.

Davis, SAMUEL E., contractor, Shawnee, Ohio, was born April 13, 1852,in Monmouthshire, Wales ; son of David E. and Elizabeth (Loyd) Davis. His father lived about three or four years in Aberdiaire, England, previous to coming to America. Emigrated June 10, 1859, landing in New York, whence he went to Minersville, Meigs county, Ohio, where Samuel E., the subject of this sketch, made his home for thirteen years. and has been engaged as follows: While in Minersville, mining and driving in mines ; Tae Company, at Star furnace, three months; returited home; Johnstown, Pennsylvania, three months, mining; Raymond City, West Virginia, thirty days, mining; returned home and went to Ironton, Ohio, in a skiff with three other men, a distance of seventy miles, where he employed in a boiler yard six months ; Ironton tunnel, three months, driving in mine and mining ; again at home, and next came to Shawnee, Ohio, where has made his home to the present time. Since coming heré he made a trip West into Illinois ; was also at Coshocton about two months, mining. He is engaged at this time by a contract with the New York Furnace Company, delivering coal for its use, which he has followed for the last three years, and previous to this laid track in mine, clerked thirteen months, and owned a grocery store at one time in this place. He now owns the property

HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY 381 in which he lives, at 132 Elm street. He is a member of the town Council, and is Past Worthy Chief of Good Templars Lodge in this place; clerk of Fire Department; and recording secretary, trustee and treasurer of the Welch Congregational Church of this place. Was married January 1, 1873, to Catharine, daughter of David and Mary (Reese) Reese. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Mary Elizabeth, Margaret, David S. and Rachel.

Davy, GeorceE C., merchant, Shawnee, Ohio; was born September 16, 1847, in Zanesville, Ohio; son of William C. and Sarah [ut Allan) Davy. Mr. Davy's father was a merchant in Zanesville, Ohio, for about two years, and from there he went to Brownsville, Licking county, Ohio, where he engaged inthe same business, and remained in it some three or four years, at which time he engaged in the hotel business, in which he continued up to the breaking out of the late war, when he enlisted and served in his country's cause. Upon his return from said service, he again entered the hotel business, in which he has continued up to the present time. Mr. Davy, the subject of this sketch, at the age of fifteen years, engaged as a clerk with his uncle in Roseville, ears, when he returned to Brownsville, where he clerked for one Sey who was engaged in mercantile business ; also for one Bell, in the same kind of business, remaining with both for some length of time. Next he went to Hebron, Licking county, Ohio, remaining about one year, when he again returned to Brownsville. Concluding to better his business education, he now takes a course of study at the Zanesville Commercial College, after which he went to Shawnee and emplofed as a clerk with the firm of Alf. & All. Krumm, where he remained about three years; at the end of this time buying out the firm with whom he was engaged, and went into business for himself, where he has remained up to this time, and is enjoying a good general merchandise business. Mr. Davy was married December 29, 1878, to Miss Clara, daughter of P. P. and Rose Comisford of Licking county, Ohio. They are the parents of two childrsn, viz.: Nellie and Blanche:

DeEAveER, Jonas B., retired farmer, Rendville, Ohio; was born October 23, 1816, in Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Jonas and Susanna (Hoover) Deaver, a native of Maryland. His paternal ancestry is English and French; his maternal, German. Mr. Deaver, the subject of this sketch, was brought up on a farm, but in early life learned the tanner's trade, which he followed about twenty-five years. Also taught school a number of terms. In more mature life preached the gospel. He also is a chairmaker. Mr. Deaver was married October 27, 1836, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Michael and Catharine (O' Harrah) Longstreth of Deavertown, Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of ten children, viz.: Henry H., mortally wounded at the battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 19, 1863, and died on the 26th of the same month; Michael L., married to Margaret Talbott: David Felton, died in infancy; Catharine E., married to William P. Weaver; Jonas N., married to Hester Shotwell; Francis G., married first to Sarah KE. Keeran, and second to Amanda E. Sherick; Erastus M., died when a child ;, Thomas E., married to Harriett Groves; Sarah J., married to George E. Murphy, deceased ; and John W. F. Mr. Deaver is an old pioneer of Monroe township, eg lived forty-six years in his present residence. About the year 1832 his father-in-law entered the land where Rendville is located. Mr. Weaver subsequently became owner of the farm. He began for himself in life with no financial aid, but by faithful, honest industry, he obtained an ample competence for himself and family by an intelligent and moral life, exerted an influence of great good in his community.

DEAVER, UrtIAu rr, Buckingham, Ohio, was born January gth, 1851, in Morgan county, Ohio; son of David H. and Sarah Jane (Vest) Deaver, of English ancestry. The doctor was brought up on a farm; began teaching schoo] at twenty-two, and taught seven terms; began the study of medicine in 1880, and attended the Starling Medical College at Columbus. He, with Dr. Kochenderfer, began practice at Buckingham, Ohio, in the spring of 1882. Dr. Deaver was married July 3, 1873, to Miss Jane, daughter of Ephraim and Eliza (McKeever) Koontz, of Bearfield township. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Leotha, Emma L., and Beulah J.

DeEAvER, WILLIAM E., farmer, Pleasant township ; post office, Moxahala; son of Abraham and Esther (McCaslon) Deaver His paternal ancestors were Welsh, and his maternal ancestors were Irish. His parents came to Morgan county in 1831, and located near Deavertown, that town being named after the Deavers. Elis father resides there now ; his mother died in 1864. The subject of this sketch left home when twenty-one years of age, took a trip West and returned and learned the carriage making trade. He next moved on the farm, one hundred and sixty acres, where he now resides. He married Evaline Rose of Bearfield township. They are the parents of the following named children : Charles, deceased ; Ellsworth, Willie, Carrie, Esther and Millie.

Detonec, J. B., farmer; post office, Crooksville; born in this county in 1817; sonof Isaac and Nancy (Bowers) Delong ; married in 1841, to Miss Sarah J. Taylor, daughter of Thomas and Mary A. Taylor. They are the parents of twelve children, viz.: Susan, Nancy, J. Win., deceased ; Mary R., George, James F., Sarah, Catharine, Isaac, deceased ; Francis, deceased ; Thomas, deceased ; John, deceased. Mr. Delong is notary public at present. He served as County Commissioner some twelve years, and as Justice of the Peace about. twenty years.

De.tonc, T. J., farmer and carpenter ; postoffice, Rehoboth ; born in Ohio, in 1818; settled in this county about the year 1833; son of Edward and Rachel (Baker) Delong. The former died about the year 1846, the latter in 1855. Mr. Delong's parents are of French and Irish descent. Grandson of George and Jane (Ward) Delong; grandson of Tilman and Mary (McName) Barker. Mr. Delong was married in 1847, to Miss Secalia Snider, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Snider. They are the parents of eight children, viz.: Jacob, deceased ; Francis, deceased ; Elizabeth, deceased ; William, deceased ; Albert, Liddie, Lil.

_Detone, Puiuip B., farmer and stock raiser, Clayton township ; post office, Buckeye Cottage; born in Perry cqunty in 1833; son of Isaac and Nancy (Bower) Delong. The former was born December 22d, 1779, the latter April 5th, 1788. The former died April 6th, 1842, the latter in 1864. The parents of the subject of this sketch were married April 17th, 1808. Mr. Delong's father entered the land now owned by the subject of this sketch, in 1823. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of a family of eight children, two of whom are still living. He purchased the homestead in 1865.

Denny, Isaac, New Lexington, Clayton township, Ohio; farmer ; was born March 20, 1817, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania; son of Isaac and Ester (Gordon) Denny. Mr. Denny lived in his native State until 1854, when he came to Perry county, Ohio, where he now lives. While in Pennsylvania he was engaged in wagoning and stage coach driving, but upon coming to Ohio he areteetl in agricultural pursuits, which he has followed up to this present time. IIe was married July 17, 1837, to Mary Jane, daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Me- Donald) Richards, of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, who departed this life July 6, 1881, aged sixty-one years. They are the parents of nine children, of whom Robert, William. Charlotte, Ella, Jacob, and 40 are living, and Isaac Newton, Jennie and infant are deceased.

r. Denny is nicely situated upon his own farm, and has a full sufficiency for an old age, which he bids fair to see. Few in life are so prosperous who are dependent, as was he, upon their own efforts.

Denny, W. B.; post office, Rehoboth; farmer and stock raiser ; born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1845; came to Perry vey in the year 1855; son of Isaac and Mary J. (Richards) Denny ; randson of Isaac and Ester Denny, and of Jacob and Agnes McDonald) Richards; married in 1867 to Miss Anna S. Ogborn, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Usher) Ogborn. 'They are the parents of three children, viz.: Rosa K., Emma J., and James N. Mr. Denny enlisted in the army in the fall of 1861, in Company C, Sixty-second O.V.I. Mr. Denny's regiment was in the following engagements: Winchester, Port Republic, Black Water, Morris Island, Fort Wagner, Petersburg, Walthall Junction, Virginia, Deep Bottom, Deep Run, and Darbytown.

Dew, Anprew J., Monroe township; farmer; post office, Corning, Ohio, was born in Bearfield township, Perry county, Ohio, August 28th, 1842; son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Getty) isi Mr. Dew was brought up on a farm until eighteen years of age, when he volunteered, August 4th, 1861, in Company A, Thirty-firstO. V. I., and did duty with his regiment until September aes 1863, when he received a musket wound in the leg at the battle of Chickamauga. This wound caused amputation of the leg a necessity. Mr. 'Dew was married September 25th, 1870, to Miss wes Jane, daughter of Jesse A. Wilson, Hartleyville, Athens county. They became the parents of one child - Elton tas Mrs. Dew died July 28th, 1872. Mr. Dew was married the second time April 1st, 1875, to Mary Jane Latta. They are the parents of four children, namely: Devine Dudley, Silvia $3, OdisiO,, and Roe Roy.

Dick, S. C., born April 27, 1817; married to Sarah Jones, January 22, 1843; died May 20, 1876. After his marriage he lived entirely in Reading township, Perry County, Ohio, except nine years that he resided in Clayton township. Began his married life with only a small portion of this world's goods, but by teaching for twenty-seven winters and farming in the summer he accumulated a property estimated to be worth $15,000 in land and chattels, free of all debts, which he was never hasty to incur. [is married children are Mattie, married to David T. Shaw, near Bremen, Fairfield county, a farmer, and Sarah, married to James A. Biggs, near Junction, in Perry county. The single children are John wees the executor of his father's will; Jehu Brook Jones, Grafton Findley, Thomas Wilson, and Hattie F., all of whom reside with their mother at the family homestead, Stephen C. Dick's example and success in life, working on the farm in summer, and teaching twenty-seven winters, prove that all the great, and good, and useful men are not bred to professions, or selected to make and' execute the laws. Ile repeatedly sat down in the morning, and before closing his eyes to sleep, had the Clayton township assessor's book ready for the County Auditor the next day. Mrs. Dick's memory, like her physical - frame, is strong and healthful. [In 1824 her father employed one Karshner to hew puncheons for the kitchen floor. Karshner employed William Williams, afterwards esteemed the richest man in Perry county, to assist at 37 cents per day. The floor wore smooth and soon became not only useful but even beautiful,

Dickson, ALEXANDER, born March 23, 1826, farmer and carpenter, post oflice, Rushville, O., son of David Dickson, and grandson of Martin Dickson, who was a native of county Kent, Ireland, and came to America late in the eighteenth century, after which his marriage to a German wile gave to their descendants an I[rish-German parentage. David, the tather of Alexander Dickson, and his wife Mary Ann Cover, cousin of John and Lawrence Caver, came with their family to Ohio in 1830 from Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Beside David and his wife, there came with them their sons, Alexander, Samuel A., James H., and David Dickson, and their daughters, Margaret and Mary Ann, wife of Levi Downhour, all now residents of Reading township, post office, Avelon. Alexander was married in 1852 to Miss Ann Elizabeth Bryson, a sister to Dr. Bryson, of Millersport. The Dicksons all belong to the Brethren church except Margaret. who is a Presbyterian, and David, who is a Methodist. One brother, Martin, remained in Pennsylvania, and one, Searight, moved to Holt county. Missouri. On the death of father Dixon, his large farm was divided among his children by partition, and this arrangement gave pleasant but not extensive farms to the heirs, and is believed to be far better for them than a sale and subsequent investment in cash at that time. ;

Ditrz, Mirron, was born January 10, 1830, in Fairfield county, Ohio, post oflice, Thornville ; is by occupation a farmer, but being generally ingenious he works with the anvil, the plane, at edge tools, and other mechanical pursuits. His son Charles seems to have inherited these mechanical gifts and has produced some useful and very beautiful articles of furniture for use at home, and an elder son, Frank, now married, also manifested the same genius in wood working. These sons were reared (as all boys should be), to the use of tools, and inherit the skill and adaptability of their maternal grandfather, Benjamin Foster, and also of their father, Mr. Diltz. George Foster, uncle of Mrs. Diltz, also was distinguished for his mechanical skill. On the Diltz side also this same natural adaptation to mechanics not only exists, but there is added thereto a disposition to read, investigate, criticise, and find truths in art, science, mechanics and philosophy in general. '* Let us inquire," is the motto. Nothing is taken for truth that will not stand the test of reason and of criticism. Milton's father was Cornelius, and hts grandfather was George Diltz. and is of Scotch, German, French and English extraction. His grandmother's maiden name was Sarah Crell, whose brother, George Crell, then a lawyer, was one of the thirteen pall bearers at the funeral of the great George Washington, the father of his country. The pall bearers were all of the name of George, and their number corresponded to the thirteen colonies. His mother's maiden name was Jaques (Jakes), whose father was John Milton Jaques, who lost his life by accidental drowning while going to or coming from a school he was teaching. His mother died at the age of twenty-nine, when Milton, her son, was only nine years of age, and she was buried in Salem. Milton was married February, 1856 to Miss Eliza A., daughter of the late venerable Benjamin Foster, who was the last surviving child of Rev. William Foster, of Perry county, and who died in 1815. Except a residence of six years in Whitley county, Indiana, they have lived in Thorn township, section 28, where they have ever since resided. Their children are Frank, married to a daughter of John Christ ; Charles, and Miss Lizzie at home. Ie has land in'Tama county, Iowa; has built him a beautiful new house. from which a steeple two and a half miles distant from Thornville can be seen, and: northward the high lands of Licking bound the horizon. [lis head is twenty-three inches in circumference; his weight, one hundred and sixty pounds ; height, five feet nine inches; his hair is auburn; his speech slow and deliberate, and in hospitality, inteiligence, and solid virtues of good citizenship he has no superior and few equals. On-section 27, Thorn, upon the great ridge dividing the waters of Rush creek, Walnut creek and Honey creek, a well was sunk thirty-two feet in depth, when a cedar or pine trunk of a sapling was found. It is in possession of Milton Diltz, section 28; is three and one-half inches in diameter, retains the bark, shows the heart, and the knots running into it plainly. The well was farther sunk to the depth of fifty-six feet without finding any more fossils, and was again filled up for lack of water found init. Mr. Diltz witnessed a falling of meteors, November 14, 1868, an account of which he read before a society, and which is reproduced in this volume. Dimonpv DanizL, Jackson township, Maholm post office, Ohio ; farmer and stone masun; was born November 20, 1822, in Cambria county, Pennsylvania; son of John and Elizabeth (Dempsey ) Dimond. Was raised upon a farm to the age of 14 years, when he went to the stone mason trade, which he followed for 30 years. During the summer season, and during the winter season, was engaged in farm work, and since the expiration of the 30 years has given much attention to agricultural pursuits, but still worked some at his trade. Came to Ohio in April of 1834, with his father, who lived in Thorn township one year, Jackson township one year, Pike township three years, Clayton township one year, and again moved into Jackson township, where he continued his residence up to the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1844. . Daniel lived with his father until he was twenty years of age, when he began business for himself, and has been engaged at the following places: Marietta, three months on river dam; Hocking canal, about three months on locks; Zanesville, three months on Catholic church ; in vicinity of New Lexington, tive or six years in all and at different times; on Catholic church in Jackson township, one summer ; at St. Joseph's College, one summer ; Catholic church at Mc- Luney, one summer ; Catholic church in Somerset, one summer ; court house in New Lexington, one summer ; Knox county, Ohio, on bridges, one season; remainder of mason work was done principally in Pike and Jackson townships. In 1848 he bought a farm of forty acres, a part of which Dicksonton is now built upon, which he sold in 1852 and purchased the farm he now lives upon, containing eighty acres, which had a hewed log house upon it, and which he has supplanted by a fine brick mansion, in which he now lives. Was married May 24, 1842, to Mary McGahan, born December 1, 1822, in Pike township, this county, daughter of James and Francis (Brown) McGahan. 'They are the parents of eleven children, viz.: Frances, now in Knox county, Ohio ; John, married to Julia Ward ; Sarah, married to John Minaugh ; James, married to Margaret Ankney; Mary, now in New Mexico; Patrick, married to Sarah Cochran; Mathias, in New Mexico with Mary ; Catharine, in Knox county, Ohio; William, in Knox county, Ohio; Daniel and Monica at home. Mr. Dimond's grandfathers Dimond and Dempsey were early settlers in America, and lived to good, ripe years. Mrs. Dimond can remember when deer were plenty, and the wolves chased the dogs around the house at night time, and knew of a lady, by the name of Hite, shooting a panther from the window of her dwelling. Mrs. Dimond is a half sister to Janarius A. McGahan, author of the '' Campaign on the Oxus," '' The Fall of Khiva," and '* Under the Northern Lights."

Dittoz, Prerer, deceased ; born July 18th, 1793, in Maryland ; died July joth, 1868, at Mount Harrison, near Somerset. Came to Ohio in 1802; served as a volunteer in the war of 1812; was a leading and successful merchant in Somerset, from 1813 to 1839; married July 4th, 1817, to Miss Ann Spurk, daughter of Peter Spurk, of Chillicothe, Ohio. They had eleven children, of whom eight survive. He was recorder of the county, postmaster under John Quincy Adams, Jackson and Van Buren; though a staunch Whig, and the devoted friend of Clay and Ewing. Without ever having seen an organ, and unaided, except from the books, he constructed an organ for the Catholic church in Somerset, over fifty years ago, which is still used there, and which sounded the solemn requiem at his funeral. He was a close student, a great reader, possessed of sterling integrity, a devout Catholic, an esteemed citizen, a kind parent, and valued friend. When he and his wife had lived happily for fifty years, their golden wedding was celebrated at Mount Harrison, the building on which was erected in 1839. The eight surviving children are: Elizabeth, married, first, to Joseph Elder, of Emmitsburg, Maryland, one son; second, to Bernard Wagner, lawyer, Evansville, Indiana, one son; Cecelia, married to Martin F. Scott, merchant, of Somerset; Francis R., married, farmer, died in Jackson county, lowa, leavone son and one daughter; Lewis H., married, owner stock ranch, Idaho, one son; George M., editor, five sons and one daughter, New- port, Kentucky; William T., married, lawyer, Davenport, Iowa; Gertrude,married to E. D. Wiseman, Peoria, Ilinois, merchant, one son ; Peter, Jr., married, farmer, residing at the old homestead, Mount Harrison. i

Peter Dirrog, Jr., raised a farmer, left home at the age of nineteen, learned telegraphing ; took .position in St. Louis as tuner and repairer of pianos and organs, afterwards in Cincinnati in the same position, and after four years thus spent, he began. business on his own account. After trying his business in Covington and Baltimore, he settled in Evansville, Indiana, in 1872, where he became eminently successful, and in 1879 he returned to Mount Harrison, saved it from going into the hands of strangers, and is making it his home. November 21st, 1867, he was united in marriage to Mary Aloysia Zinn, daughter of Peter Zinn, of Wheeling, West Virginia. It seldom happens that so young a man, starting out in life when only nineteen, succeeds in achieving sufficient means to purchase so fine an estate, and retiring so early from active life, surrounded with so many of its real comforts and means of happiness. j

Dirror, Frank A., born May gth, 1849, merchant, Somerset, Ohio. On his birth day, 1882, was married to Miss Mary E., daughter of Hon. W. E. Finck, of Somerset. His father was Jacob Dittoe, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who came to Somerset with Frank's grandfather/ Joseph Dittoe, in 1813. he great grand\.'!: r, whose name was 'also Joseph, came from Alsace, France, where the name is spelled De/Toe. Jacob Dittoe had an uncle John, who went to the State of New York, - Francis, who died in Pickaway county, Ohio; Anthony, who died in Perry county, Ohio; Peter, who lived and died in Virginia, - all of whom were brothers of Joseph Dittoe, the grandfather of Frank. The mother of Jacob, and grandmother of Frank, was, in her maiden days, a Miss Helen Grimm. The uncles of Frank A. Dittoe were: John, a farmer of Perry, who died up in ninety years of age, in Perry county, Ohio; Michael, a carpenter, who died single, in New Orleans, about the year 1829; Joseph, who was drowned in the Mississippi River a few years prior to the death of Micheal, and Anthon Dittoe, the youngest brother of Jacob, who died in Edgar county, Ihnois. Frank's father, Jacob Dittoe, was married in 1826 to Miss Sarah Cain, by Rev. N. D. Young. The daughters born to this wedlock were: Sere and Mary, of Washington, D. C., where the latter deceased; Miss Lizzie and Eugenia, of Somerset, Ohio; Margaret, wife of William Dittoe, a lawyer of Davenport, Iowa; and Cecelia, wife of Hon. T. P. Cox, of Lancaster, Ohio. The sons were: Frank A., the subject of this sketch, John, and William, who died at' the family homestead, in Somerset, sole and unmarried, and M. J. Dittoe, who went to the City of New York nearly thirty years ago, engaged as carpenter and architect, never married, and amassed a large fortune, which he divides liberally with his only surviving brother, Frank A., and the kindred of his household. - In 1879 the writer obtained the following facts from the lips of Jacob Dittoe, then in his seventy-cighth year: There was not a house ,on Columbus street, Somerset, in 1813, and not one brick house in all the town. It had two taverns, and one dry goods store. Then, too, there was not a house in Zanesville from the present site of the court house there to the river bank - all commons, cow pasture, etc. Then Lancaster had but two dry goods stores, and the '*Ohio Eagle"? newspaper, St. Joseph's being the first Catholic church in Ohio. 'There came thither, not only the sons and daughters of the church to worship, but to enter the holy bonds of wedlock. Then, as now, no loyal daughter of the church would marry Catholic or Protestant husband who refused to be united in wedlock by a priest of Mother Church. Here the elder Thomas Ewing, afterwards the great jurist, lawer, and statesman, of Lancaster, came to marry his wife, a Catholic daughter of Hugh Boyle, Clerk of Fairfield Common Pleas Court. Mr. Ewing had no notion of doing without a beautiful and charming wife because of such exacting rules of his wife's church, since these cid not bind him to become a Catholic, but only the husband of a Catholic wife, which latter was agreeable to his preferences. It is a singular fact that the same priest, Rev. N. D. Young, who performed the marriage service, also performed the funeral service of this well known man.

Dona.pson, Wo. A., of the firm of Tussing & Donaldson, attorneys-at-law, New Lexington, Ohio, was born Dashes 21, 1853, in Hocking county, Ohio, son of Joshua and Catharine (Marlow) Donaldson. Young Donaldson was graduated at Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, in 1876. He began teaching school when about seventeen, and taught three terms. In the spring of 1877 began reading law, and was admitted to thé bar in the fall of 1878. Began practice with A. W. Scott, firm name, Scott & Donaldson, which was dissolved ir September, 1880, when the present firm was formed.

DonnELLY, J. J., Justice of the Peace, Monroe township, Corning, Ohio; born December 21, 1831, in Reading township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Hugh and Susannah (Galley) Donnelly. Hugh Donnelly is a native of county Tyrone, Ireland; was born February 22, 1794,. came to America in 1821, and is now living in Perry county, Ohio. Susannah Galley was born in Maryland, of German ancestors. | They became the parents of ten children, viz.: Mary, married to Levi Sisler ; twins, died not named; Susannah; Joseph Patrick, married to Rose McGonnagle; John Joseph, the subject of this sketch; Owen, died in childhood ; Catharine, married first to Patrick Daugherty, and second to David Webster ; Eliza, died in infancy ; Elizabeth, married to Elijah Blizzard. John Joseph, named before, was brought up on a farm, began teaching school at eighteen years of age, and taught thirty-nine terms. Has resided in Pike, Bearfield, Pleasant and Monroe townships, Perry county, Ohio, and one yearsin Miami county, Ohio. He enlisted May 45 1864, in Co. B, 160th Régt., O. N. G., and served four months. In 1880 Mr. Donnelly discovered the greatest deposit of iron ore in Perry county, Ohio, one mile south of Oakfield, Pleasant township. He also has made several discoveries of valuable deposits of iron ore since. Mr. Donnelly was elected Justice of the Peace of Monroe township, this county, in May, 1881. Esquire Donnelly, was married August 31, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of Patrick and Mary Ann (O'Ferry) Toole. They are the parents of five living children, viz. : Annie Isabel, Hugh Dessadarius, Philip A., Loretto Susannah, and John Sylvester. Patrick Toole was a native of the city of Cork, Ire-

Drake, J. M., Monroe township, carpenter, Corning, Ohio; was born March 24, 1847, in Pennsville, Morgan county, Ohio; son of C, D. and Hannah (Rusk) Drake. Mr. Drake was brought up from four years of age to his twenty-first year in Ringold, Morgan county, Ohio, where he learned his aes and at the age of twenty-one years he went into business for himself. Was married January 7, 1869, to Miss Sarah FE. Shell, who was born June 15, 1852, in Morgansville, Morgan county, Ohio; daughter of John and Mary (Dawson) Shell. They are the parents of four children, viz.: Ara Ellen, Hannah Louisa, Patience Elizabeth and Austin Hermon. After his marriage he lived in Morgan county, Ohio, for eleven years, when he moved to where he now lives May 11, 1880. Mr. Drake's father was born in Alexandria county, Virginia, and came to Ohio at an early day and settled on Wolf creek, Morgan county, where he lived up to the time of his death, September 18,1879. His mother, Hannah Rusk, was born in Perry county, Ohio, and moved into Morgan county when a child, where she lived to the time of her death, October 3, 1875. Mr. C. D. and Hannah Rusk Drake became the parents of ten children, viz.: Rachel D., married to Franklin Amos; Sarah, died October 25, 1874, was married to Richard Williams ; Matilda, married to John Hanesworth ; George E., died in Andersonvilie prison, August 12, 1864; II. D., died June 10, 1882, in Corning; J. M., the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth J., first married to Asbury Kirkbridge, who died April 5, 1874 ; married the second time to Thomas Hamilton; Lucy E.. married to Charles Scott; William ©., died November 30, 1878, and Mary C., died September 2, 1875.

Driver, EsrHer, Shawnee, Ohio, was born June 29, 1831, in Carmarthenshire, Wales; daughter of John and Ann (Hopkins) Jenkins. Mrs. Driver came to America in September of 185,, landing in New York and going thence via Syracuse to Meigs county, Ohio, where she joined her husband, James Driver, who had preceded her in emigration some four years. Mr. Driver had been a collier in Wales, and was engaged in mining at this place. which remained their home for fifteen years. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company A, Fourth Regiment, Va. V. I., serving his full time, and was honorably discharged, returning home and moving to Shawnee in August of 1872, living here until February, 1875, when he departed this life, and was buried in the Shawnee cemetery. There were few houses in this place upon their coming, and they were obliged to take shelter in a barn, but now enjoy a good frame dwelling for their home. Mrs. Driver was married May 30, 1851, to James, son of James and Margaret (Bassett) Driver. 'They became the parents of six children, now living, viz.: Ann, Mary J., James, William, Elizabeth and Esther, and two who are deceased, Margaret and John. A_ peculiarity of the family is that only two of the children can sce sufliciently to read. Some of the girls have been educated in the Blind Asylum, and have become proficient musicians, and give concerts, by which they are enabled to assist in obtaining a livelihood. ;

Drorce, Epwarp T., was born March 22, 1817, in the city of Dublin, Ireland. His father was of German descent, and landed in Ireland as a soldier. Edward, at a tender age, came to America with two brothers and a sister, married to Lawrence Gill, who died in. Philadelphia. His father's name was Hardwick Droege, and his brothers were William, deceased in Philadelpeia; John, who also died in Philadelphia, after his discharge from service in the army. He has two sons living. At the age of seventeen [Edward went to the saddler trade, and served over three years as an apprentice. Soon after he followed his brother John to New Orleans, on board a mail ship, starting December 23, 1838, and found the climate, after getting into the gulf stream, extremely pleasant, and the voyage very agreeable, lasting twenty-one days. He found his brother there as if by accident, and both being of the same trade, found their way back to Cincinnati, where they found .an old shopmate of the same trade, by the uame of Thornhill. They finally arrived in Somerset, and both obtained work ; John with Thomas Wiles, Edward with George M. Houser and John Poorman, now of Tiffin, Ohio, whose shops were located on the Dittoe corner, where General Law had carried on the same business. At that date, February, 1839, there were five saddler shops in Somerset, some of these employing six workmen, of which H.C. Filler was one. Somerset then enjoyed the entire trade in saddlery for the whole county, and 'Squire McDonald, of Monroe township, was a customer. Edward Droege went to Zanesville to find the trunks he had left at Cincinnati, intending to go on to Philadelphia, but the fact of not finding them brought him back to Somerset, where he has remained ever since. Four or five months afterward Peter Smith found the trunks at Newark by accident, and they were then hauled to Somerset. Much trade then went by wagon to Newark from Perry county. Idward worked as a journeyman saddler to the year 1845. He was married November 22, 1840, to Cecelia R. Finck. They have living eight children - Mary; Maria, married to Samuel Eder, residence Somerset; Charles, married to Ellen McEntire, residence Indianapolis, Indiana; Agnes ; Julia, married to John Slinger, residence Bogstown, Indiana; Edward, married to Emma Migga, Indianapolis, Indiana; Lucy, married to Edward Droege, residence Indianapolis; Cecelia. Mr. Droege' is a man of high character and persevering industry, and as an evidence of his sterling integrity, he has served nineteen years as township treasurer, and for many years also as town and school district treasurer, which offices he is still holding, He is found every day at his saddler shop, where the business is carried on under the firm and style of Droege & Frymute. No man in Somerset works more days in a year, or relies more exclusively on his labor for a livelihood, than Edward Droege.

Duckworth, Ravru, collier, Shawnee, O. ; was born February 7, 1856,.in Steubenville, Ohio; son of James and Ann Duckworth. Was removed from his native city during his infancy to Syracuse, Meigs county, Ohio, remaining with his father in that place until he was twenty years of age, from where he came to Shawnee, and where he has remained up to this time, with the exception of three months, when he took a trip to Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New York, and Saginaw, Michigan, from whence he made a seven weeks' trip on the lake, and from Saginaw returned home. Has been employed at different kinds of work in the mines since coming to the place. Mr. Duckworth was married De- cember 7th, 1876, to Isabel, daughter of Robert and Dorothy Kirton, of Missouri, near St. Louis, whose home, at the time of her marriage, was in Shawnee, Ohio. They are the parents of one child living, viz. : James, and two deceased ; Daisy, and one who died in infancy.

Durry, PEetrer, was born in Madison county, New York, January 8th, 1837; moved to Chapel Hill, Perry county, Ohio, in 1841; taught school in Monroe township from 1859 to 1863. Was married in 1860 to Lydia S. Tinker. * Moved to New Lexington in 1864, and engaged in the mercantile business with Ogle, Yeoman & Co., until 1866. Was elected to the office of Clerk of Courts in November, 1866, and filled that office until February, 1876. Soon after his election to this office, he bought an interest in the New Lexington //eraldd, and was one of the proprietors eight years ; first, under the firm name of Butler, Duffy & Meloy, afterwards Duffy, Green & Meloy; and still later, Dufly & Meloy. After leaving the office of Clerk, he sold his interest in the Herald and engaged in mercantile business, in which he has been engaged ever since. Ile has been an active and influential worker in the Democratic party. ;